{"product_id":"2940012383204","title":"The Steps Of Life: Further Essays On Happiness","description":"Published in 1907, four years after his first book, entitled, \"Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life.\" (264 Pages) Translated by Melvin Brandow with an introduction by Francis Peabody. Carl Hilty was born in Switzerland on February 28, 1833. He was a student at Gottingen, Heidelberg, London, and Paris. In 1874 he was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Bern. In 1890, he became a member of the Swiss House of Representatives, and in 1901, he was made Rector of the University of Bern. This is Professor Hilty's follow-up book to his first volume entitled; \"Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life\". which is also available for the Barnes and Noble, Nook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay I, Sin and Sorrow ----- Essay II, \"Comfort Ye My People\" ----- Essay III, On the Knowledge of Men ----- Essay IV, What is Culture? ----- Essay V, Noble Souls ----- Essay VI, Transcendental Hope ----- Essay VII, The Prolegomena of Christianity ----- Essay VIII, The Steps of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....The welcome offered to the translation of Professor Hilty's \"Happiness\" amply justifies the translation of a second series of his essays. The same notes of tranquil reflection and keen observation, which have drawn to the earlier volumes, many readers both in Europe and America, are here struck again. Professor Hilty is not a preacher, and his essays are not sermons. He is a professor of Constitutional Law, and the studies of life which these volumes represent are products of his leisure hours, wrought out of his meditation and experience. Sin and sorrow, culture and courage, a just judgment of others, a rational optimism, and a simple Christian faith, these are the \"Steps of Life\" up which this wise teacher mounts, and which he invites thoughtful readers to climb.--- Francis Peabody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....It is always difficult to know how to conduct oneself rightly toward very wealthy or very distinguished people; for to be with them means either a kind of dependent relationship, or a constant watchfulness against receiving favors that is inconsistent with real friendship. Real friendship gladly gives and gladly receives, without keeping any account. Besides, wealth and distinction very often make men insensible to life's true riches, and limit them in their views of men and life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....A kind-hearted readiness to help is the sure sign of a good character, while cruelty to animals and ridicule of men is a sure sign of a bad character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....Envy comes to light to rejoice; generosity, to help; and indifference, to pass by on the other side. Whoever has had no thorough experience of this, in person, does not know men. In the first part of life, when experience is still small, the greatest danger in one's attitude to men, is that of considering them of too much importance; in the second, that of becoming too indifferent to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....A temperament always equable, somewhat cool but not selfish, and sympathetic and friendly to everyone, is perhaps the happiest if one wishes to be generally liked. Such men pass for especially amiable people and are universally esteemed, without their often contributing anything important and solid to the advance of the world.","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147415601392,"sku":"2940012383204","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012383204_p0.jpg?v=1763567978","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012383204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}